The Odyssey
Subtitle: Structure, Narration, and Meaning
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 24, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801860584
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Greek Literature; Poetry; Ancient (Classical) Greek; History and criticism; Ancient Greece; Narration (Rhetoric); Ancient - General; Ancient and Classical; Homer; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Odyssey; Technique; Epic poetry, Greek; History; Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature; To 500
First sentence: Many studies argue that the Odyssey is a highly thematic narrative, and any serious analysis of the poem's structure needs to proceed from this cardinal observation.